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2023

• The 2023 Retrosepctive

  La rétrospective annuelle.

• What does HN love about HN?

  Or how often middlebrow-dismissal applies to HN itself

• Plotting taxi fares for fun and profit (?)

  Running some scripts to plot the fares of taxi rides in Hyderabad and Bangalore.

2022

• The 2022 Retrosepctive

  La rétrospective annuelle.

• 10x faster arm64 builds on Github Actions

  A simple one-liner mix of Github's managed runners for x86 and a self-hosted runner for arm64.

• Making Cloudfront Signed URLs work with response-content-disposition

  A workaround for the Node.js AWS SDK to make Cloudfront Signed URLs work with response-content-disposition.

• Are MySQL UUID inserts really that slow?

  Exploring insert performance of UUIDs in MySQL in a worst-case scenario.

• How I deploy my ~4,000 MAU Python Telegram bot

  Using semantic release, Docker and watchtower to deploy my Python Telegram bot.

• Cross-compiling Rust on GitHub Actions

  Cross-compiling Rust for x86 and aarch64 on GitHub Actions.

• Learning French (efficiently) 🇫🇷

  My progress, methods and timelines of learn French efficiently.

• Working with HEIC/F images with Node.js' sharp on AWS Lambda

  Compiling libjpeg, libde265, libheif, libvips and sharp to process HEIC/F images in AWS Lambda using layers.

2021

• Bucket List

  This is a living, ambitious (perhaps too much), and certainly incomplete list.

• The 2021 retrospective

  The annual retrospective of 2021

• The Piquarium Project

  Building a fish tank monitoring system using serverless databases and a Raspberry Pi B+ 🍇

• How to automate GitHub releases using GitHub Actions

  Using GitHub Actions to push new releases without manually tagging commits.

2020

• Experiments with Time Tracking - 2020 Edition

  Continuing my experiments with time tracking, this time the year 2020.

• GSoC 2020 @ CERN - Part II

  Wrapping up, presentations and conclusion.

• GSoC 2020 @ CERN - Part I

  Community bonding, researching and the first evaluation.

• GSoC 2020 @ CERN - Part 0

  Parts of the process before applying including shortlisting projects, reading and choosing what to work on.

• My Experience with GSoC 2020

  A 3 part series on my experience with Google Summer of Code 2020 CERN

2019

• Interpreting Computer Programs

  Working my way through and solving exercises from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

• Experiments with Time Tracking

  Doing some rudimentary time tracking using Google Sheets

• Astrophotography at the Edge of Tibet

  Doing some (amateur) astrophotography in Sangla at the edge of Tibet.